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This 11-page paper discusses issues pertaining to carbon offsets, developing nations and supply and demand. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Introduction Following are questions concerning trends in the carbon market. According to the 2009 edition of the World Banks State and Trends of
the Carbon Market, the overall carbon market continued to grow in 2008, reaching a total value transaction of about US$126 billion, double its 2007 value. Some envision a $1 trillion
dollar market for carbon by 2020! A major challenge, however, is the ability of developing countries to produce a large and credible supply of carbon emission offsets. Carbon, Supply
and Demand Will the international carbon market, on its own, encourage the needed supply of carbon offset projects or is multilateral state intervention
required? The short answer to this question is yes - with the addition that the worst thing any market can sustain is
that of any kind of multilateral state intervention. Technically, between the Kyoto Protocol and the UNs Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), which well explore
later on in this paper, there should be enough needed supply on the market (Pulitzer, 2010). The concept behind cap and trade, in fact, is that some companies/nations with extra
offsets can trade those offsets to others that might require them. With help from aspects such as bundled projects (putting many small projects together with larger ones to give more
clout), more offsets can be put on the market (Pulitzer, 2010). But is this enough to satisfy demand? Even furthermore, what is
an entity willing to pay for carbon mitigation? This depends - emerging markets are willing to trade their offsets for funds. But as these markets become more industrialized (such as
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